Benno is a Belgian Malinois with a healthy appetite. In his four years, he's eaten a lot of strange objects, from underwear and and blankets to electronics and a gasoline-soaked lawn mower air filter.
Owner Larry Brassfield had been repackaging ammunition the night before when he woke up early to his wife telling him that the dog had thrown up. She said there was ammo in the vomit.
X-rays showed that the dog had some improperly loaded rounds in his stomach.
They weren't able to tell exactly how many there were, but they could distinguish 17 or 18. Benno would definitely not have been legal in the state of California, where you can't have more than ten rounds in your dog at a time.
Ultimtely they removed 23 rounds from his stomach.
Another x-ray showed two remaining cartridges in his esophagus, but vets decided to wait and allow them time to chamber instead of performing another surgery right away.
Five days later, one of the rounds was ejected, and 3 days after that, he shot out the final round.
Benno is expected to fully recover and has already regained his appetite for destruction.

There are no secrets when you take a commercial flight.
Nothing is left to the imagination.
You can see what everybody is packing.
Whether it's personal or checked baggage.
The detail is there for everyone to see.

Suitcase, coloured X-ray.

So don't pack anything you wouldn't want to be caught with in public.
When this is a typical example of what the airport security agent sees all day
Then something like this is bound to stand out.
Pets are not allowed as carry-on and this one was spotted right away. But people continue to try to get away with it anyway.

An 8-year-old African boy named Abou was discovered stuffed in a small suitcase in what Spanish police called a “terrible state” after a failed attempt to rejoin his father.

He had been smuggled into Spanish territory in the north African enclave of Ceuta, north of Morocco, when he was discovered on Thursday at a land border crossing by the Spanish Guardia Civil police.

The Guardia Civil released photos on Friday of the gaunt child from the Ivory Coast, curled in a fetal position inside the luggage.

“When they put the suitcase through the scanner, the operator noticed something strange, which seemed to be a person inside the case,” a border officer told AFP news agency.

He was smuggled there in the suitcase with wheels by a 19-year-old Moroccan woman, a spokesman for the Guardia Civil told AFP.

The boy, whose eyes were apparently heavily pixellated from the ordeal, has been placed with lost luggage.